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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






2. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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3. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






4. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






5. Wide Range Achievement Test






6. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






8. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






9. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






10. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






11. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






12. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






13. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






14. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






15. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






16. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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17. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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18. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






19. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






20. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






21. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






22. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






23. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






24. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






25. Individual Educational Plan






26. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






27. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






28. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






29. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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30. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






31. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






32. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






33. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






34. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






35. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






36. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






37. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






38. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






39. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






40. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






41. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






42. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






43. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






44. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






45. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






46. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






47. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






48. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






49. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






50. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.







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